eralizations can be made across cultures. If researchers construct a questionnaire in an emic fashion, their concern is only that the questions are meaningful to the particular culture or ethnic group being studied. If, however, the researchers construct a questionnaire in an etic fashion, they want to include questions that reflect concepts familiar to all cultures involved.
How might the emic and etic approaches be reflected in the study of family processes? In the emic approach, the researchers might choose to focus only on middle-class White families, without regard for whether the information obtained in the study can be generalized or is appropriate for ethic minority groups. In a subsequent study the researchers may decide to adopt an etic approach by studying not only middle-class, White families, but also lower-income White families, Black American families, Spanish American families, and Asian American families. In studying in ethic minority families, the researchers would likely discover that the extended family is more frequently a support system in ethnic minority families than in White American families. If so, the emic approach would reveal a different pattern of family interaction than would the etic approach, documenting that research with middle-class White families cannot always be generalized to all ethnic groups.
36. According to the first paragraph, researchers unfamiliar with the target cultures are inclined to
A) be overcautious in constructing meaningful measures
B) view them from their own cultural perspective
C) guard against interference from their own culture
D) accept readily what is alien to their own culture
37. What does the author say about the emic approach and the etic approach?
A) They have different research focuses in the study of ethnic issues.
B) The former is biased while the latter is objective.
C) The former concentrates on the study of culture while the latter on family
issues.
D) They are both heavily dependent on questionnaires in conducting surveys.
38. Compared with the etic approach, the emic approach is apparently more ——.
A) culturally interactive C) culturally biased
B) culture-oriented D) culture-specific
39. The etic approach is concerned with .
A) the general characteristics of minority families
B) culture-related concepts of individual ethnic groups
C) features shared by various cultures or ethnic groups
D) the economic conditions of different types of families
40. Which of the following is true of the ethnic minority families in the U.S. according
to the passage?
A) Their cultural patterns are usually more adaptable.
B) Their cultural concepts are difficult to comprehend.
C) They don't interact with each other so much as White families.
D) They have closer family ties than White families.
Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this Part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet with a single
line through the center.
4l. It was that the restaurant discriminated against black customers.
A) addicted C) assaulted
B) alleged D) ascribed
42. The medicine —— his pain but did not care his illness.
A) activated C) mediated
B) alleviated D) deteriorated
43. He is the only Person who can in this case, because the other witnesses were killed
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A) testify C) accuse
B) charge D) rectify
44. Professor Hawking is —— as one of the world's greatest living physicists.
A) dignified C) acknowledged
B) clarified D) illustrated
45. The financial problem of this company is further —— by the rise in interest rates.
A) increased C) reinforced
C) strengthened D) aggravated
46. We shall probably never be able to —— the exact nature of these sub-atomic particles.
A) assert C) ascertain
B) impart D) notify
47. All the people in the stadium cheered up when they saw hundreds of colourful
balloons slowly into the sky.
A) ascending C) escalating
B) elevating D) lingering
48. Many years had —— before they returned to their original urban areas.
A) floated C) skipped
B) elapsed D) proceeded.
49. What you say now is not —— with what you said last week.
A) consistent. C) permanent
B) persistent D) insistent
50. Military orders are —— and cannot be disobeyed.
A) defective C) alternative
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